Button pencil clasp



Jan. 8 1924.

C. L. CRUVER BUTTON PENCIL CLASP Filed Dec. 31, 1920 /fzde/ZOZ/ Gazz/X25 Gfx/dez* Patented Jen. 8, i924.

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CURTIS L.l CRUVER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BUTTON PENCIL CLASP.

Application filed December 31, 1920. Serial No. 434,221.

To @ZZ tai/tom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, CURTIS L. CRUVER,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Button Pencil Clasps, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to clasps for securing a pencil in the pocket of the clothing of the user, and having a button for the display of advertising or other matter.

The object of my invention is to provide improved means for supporting the button on the clasp, comprising a simple and durable construction which may be economically manufactured.

Heretofore pencil clasps have been produced with buttons supported thereon by means of variously secured separate supporting members involving a. loose unsatisfactory fastening expensive of manufacture. I have provided an improved fastening device which gives rigid support for the button and may be cheaply manufactured.

The construction and arrangement of my device will fully appear in the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which Figure l is 30 a side view of the preferred embodiment of my invention showing it attached to apencil. Fig. 2 is a back view of the device. Fig.

8 is a sectional side view taken vertically through the center of the assembled clasp 35 and button. Fig. 4 is a front view of my device, with the button removed, as constructed with a supplementary button supporting member. lFig. 5 is a vertical sectional view taken through the center of li ig. 4`v with the button attached. Fig. 6 is a detail view of the supplementary supporting member. Fig. 7 represents a blank cut from sheet material and illustrates a step in the manufacture of the integral clasp and button support.

Referring to Figs. l, 2 and 8, the clasp comprises a base or back portion l having a pair of curved clasping jaws 2 with their ends integral with the back portion and together forming a substantially cylindrical longitudinal opening between them in which a pencil 3 may be resiliently clamped. The back portion l is extended longitudinally to form a spring tongue 4 terminating in a holding ball 5 adapted to secure the pencil and clasp to the clothing by gripping a portion of a garment 6 inserted between the spring tongue and the pencil.

A pair of lateral wings 7, formed integrally with the back portion l, have their outer edge portions shaped into two segments 8 which together form. an outwardly flaring broken annular flange. A button 9, upon the face of which any desired matter may be displayed, is formed with a circumferential flange 10, converging toward its open end. The flange 10 is adapted to receive the flaring annular langeisegments 8 and to be pressed over the latter to secure the button in rigid attachment to theV clasp.

It will here be noted that the button is securely fastened to a back support .which is a rigid integral part ofthe clasp structure, and without other fastening device or assembling operation being required than the interengagement of the two flanges. n

To provide a more nearly continuous annular support for the edges of the button flange, I may employ a supplementary supporting member l1 (Figs. 4, 5 and 6) adapted to rest loosely upon the back portion l in the depression formed by the segments 8 of the flaring flange. The member 11 is formed with extended end portions shaped to form opposite segments l2 of a flaring annular ange of like contour and diameter at their edges as that formed by the segments 8. When assembled the segments l2 lie between the. segments S and together form a substantially continuous flange.

It will be seen that by this means the flange l0 of the button may be secured to the substantially continuous supportformed by the segments 8 and l2. In Fig. 7 I have shown a blank illustrating a step in the simple manufacturing operations involved in producing my device wherein the clasping jaws 2, supporting Wings 7 and spring arm 4 may be integrally struck from sheet material, the slits 13 defining the clasping jaws and supporting wings preliminary to their final shaping.

I claim as my invention:

l. A device of the class described having, in combination, a back portion, clasping jaws on said back portion, a spring tongue extending from the back portion and terminating in a holding portion, and integral wings formed on the back portion and having their outer edges bent forwardly to form lit) flaring flange segments adapted to be secured to a correspondingly bent peripheral flange carried by a button.

2. A device of the class described having, in combination, a back portion, a pair of' curved clasping jaws formed integrally with said back portion and coacting to resilient-ly embrace a pencil, an integral spring tongue extending from said back portion longitudinally of the pencil and termmating` in a holding portion, a pair of lateral wings formed integrally with said back portion, the outer edges of said wings being bent to form a broken annular flange adapted to be secured to a button member having a peripheral flange engaging said annular flange.

A device of the class described comprising, in combination. a back portion, a pair of curved resilient clasping jaws integral with said back portion, a pair of flat wings integral with said back portion and projecting oppositely therefrom, the edges of said Wings being` shaped to form segments of an annular flange, and a member having a flat portion superimposed upon said wings and having projecting ends extending between said flange segments and shaped to form similar segments of said annular flange, said flange being adapted to support a button.

4. A pencil holding device having, in combination7 pencil clasping jaws integral with a common base, and means for attaching a Vbutton thereto, said means comprising a plurality of wing members integral with said base and having their outer edges forming segments of a Vflaring flange, and complementary converging` flange carried by a button and adapted to receive the segments of said first mentioned ange in interlocking engagement.

5. A pencil holding device having, in combination, pencil claspingjaws integral with a common base, and means 'for attaching a button thereto, said means comprising a pair of wing members integral with said base and having their outer edges forming` segments of' a flaring flange, a member superimposed upon said 'wingsiliaving end portions extending between said segments and forming similar segments of said flange, and a complementary converging flange carried by a button and adapted to receive the segments of said first mentioned flange in interlocking engagement.

6. A device of the class described formed from an integral piece of sheet material comprising a bodyr portion having a pair of oppositely positioned curved slits describing marginal bands bent inwardly to form coacting clasping jaws. said slits also describing flat wing portions having marginal edges bent to form a broken annular flange adapted to be secured to a button member having a peripheral flange engaging said broken annular flange.

7. A button support for a pencil or the like comprising a flat substantially circular member or disk formed to provide a broken annular flange and adapted to be secured directly to a button member having a peripheral flange engaging said broken annular flange, and a pair of curved arms formed integral with said disk and adapted yieldingly to clasp the pencil.

8. A. button support for a pencil or the like comprising a flat substantially circular member or disk formed to provide a broken annular flange and adapted to be secured directly to a button member having a peripheral flange engagjingv said substantially circular member or disk, and a pair of curved arms formed integral with said disk and adapted yieldingly to clasp the pencil, said disk having a stem portion also formed integral therewith and adapted to engage yieldingly the pencil held by said arms.

9. A combined pencil and button holder made from a single sheet of metal shaped and slit to provide a flat central portion,a resilient garment clasping tongue, and a pair of band portions bent rearwardly from the central portion to form curved pencil clasping jaws, the central portion having means for engaging a button to hold it.

in testimony whereof, l have hereunto set my hand.

cURTis L. canvas. 

